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Angelina Jolie will play Dagny Taggart in the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Jolie is known to have said that she was a fan of Rand’s work.

Atlas Shrugged is just one of Rand’s novels that include her philosophy of Objectivism. Objectivism is described by Rand as “…the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”
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The Children of Hurin, J. R. R. Tolkien’s unfinished work begun in 1918 is now complete. Tolkien’s son, Christopher Tolkien, has finished the book after spending 30 years going through his father’s notes. The book is scheduled to be released in 2007.
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Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, the political activist’s critique of American foreign policy from the 1950s to 2003 gained media attention (and likewise bestseller status) when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez help up a copy during his famous UN General Assembly speech where he called American President George W. Bush, not fondly, “the devil.”
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Hannibal Rising, Thomas Harris’s fifth Hannibal Lecter book is coming this December. Harris has also written the screenplay for the movie which will be released in 2007. The previous four books in the series are: Black Sunday, Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and, Hannibal.
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